Tim Hewitt Posted August 6, 2021 Posted August 6, 2021 Working on a book cover in Infinity Photo, I copied a block of text and pasted the copy on a new layer and edited the text. I clicked out of the text box, made some other edits to the photo. When I went back to that text to make a change, Infinity Photo had turned that text into pixels! The original text box that I copied is still unaffected, but the copied text box, which I just edited as text, is now a graphic that I can't change. Has anyone experienced this before or know what would cause it? I'm not aware of clicking anything that would cause the change. Quote
Old Bruce Posted August 6, 2021 Posted August 6, 2021 It sounds like you have rasterized that layer. Did you save this as a PSD file? Because PSD exported out from Affinity Photo won't have Text as Text but a layer of pixels. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
walt.farrell Posted August 6, 2021 Posted August 6, 2021 15 minutes ago, Tim Hewitt said: I'm not aware of clicking anything that would cause the change. With that layer selected, please give us a screenshot that includes the workspace and the Layers panel (with that layer visible in it). Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Tim Hewitt Posted August 6, 2021 Author Posted August 6, 2021 The base image with a couple of layers of graphics was originally a Photoshop file, but after opening it in Affinity Photo, I made a few changes and saved the file as an Affinity file before doing anything with text. I assume at that point Photoshop would be out of the equation. So I created a block of text using the Frame Text tool, then copied that block of text, which was text when it pasted, and I was able to edit it. Quote
Tim Hewitt Posted August 6, 2021 Author Posted August 6, 2021 7 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: With that layer selected, please give us a screenshot that includes the workspace and the Layers panel (with that layer visible in it). Thanks, Walt. Here you go. The text block on the left is the original. I copied the entire block and pasted it on the right. Then I edited the text (as you can see, it's different). But when I came back to make some changes, the text had become an image and the layer is labeled "Pixel". I'm not aware that I did anything after editing the text other than click on a different element of the file, make an adjustment, then return to the text... which was no longer text. Quote
walt.farrell Posted August 6, 2021 Posted August 6, 2021 Thanks. It's definitely a pixel layer, as Bruce suspected. I'm not sure what you could have done, given your description, that would cause that. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Tim Hewitt Posted August 6, 2021 Author Posted August 6, 2021 Thanks, Walt. No idea either. Fortunately, it's just a small block of text, so no big deal to redo it. Was just curious if anyone had encountered a bug somewhere. Quote
R C-R Posted August 6, 2021 Posted August 6, 2021 Open Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts & select Photo in the first popup & Layer in the second. Scroll down to near the end of the list until you see "Rasterize & Trim..." & "Rasterize..." If either of them has a shortcut assigned, make sure you have not accidentally used it. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
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